Les Inrocks Festival: Miossec, Terrenoire, Myth Syzer and Krisy

Today sees the start of the Les Inrocks Festival in Paris, an event run in conjunction with France's most switched-on cultural magazine.

While music is front and centre of the four-day event, there are discussions, meetings, food and film screenings all being held at the Gaîté Lyrique.

Tonight sees a performance by Miossec, whose album Les rescapés was released in September.



Also playing tonight are Manchester's W H Lung and Terrenoire, who have just released their debut EP.


Tomorrow has John Grant, who released his Love is magic album earlier this year, along with Queen Zee from Liverpool, Touts from Derry and Fontaines D.C.  from Dublin.

On Friday it's the event hosts three developing French acts, featuring Myth Syzer whose Bisous debut was released in April. Also on the bill are Lolo Zouaï and Johan Papaconstantino.



The final night features a more hip hop and rap orientated bill, with Loud, Krisy, Octavian and Duckwrth.




Add to these some showcase sets by Zed Yun Pavarotti, Mauvais Oeil and Oh Mu.

As you might expect from Les Inrocks, it's a well curated line-up. A mix of  developing acts and more widely-known cult acts, French and international and cross-genres, but all with the kind of artistic credibility that attracted the attention of from France's most respected music mag and multimedia platform.

Miossec: Nous Sommes

A new track has emerged from, ahead of the release of a new album in September.

Nous Sommes is a collaboration with Jeanne Added, who has herself recently released the single Mutate.

The new album, his eleventh, comes two years after his last solo album Mammifères. 

Miossec has been active musically since the mid 90s, his debut Boire released in 1995. HIs commercial breakthrough came with 1998's À prendre album.

In recent years Miossec has written for some of France's most significant performers including Johnny Hallyday, Nolwenn Leroy. His song 20 ans performed by Johnny won the Victoire de la musique award in 2014 for best song of the year.

Miossec's new album, to be entitled Les Rescapés, is released in September and he's got a series of live dates including a show at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris as part of the Les Inrocks festival on November 21.

We Are Match: Radical

A new video by We Are Match, with a memorable clip for the track Radical.

It comes from the Paris-based band's debut album Shores which was released in September last year.

I featured We Are Match last year as one of this blog's New Acts following the release of their Speaking Machines track, and again in September with the release of The Shark as a single just ahead of their debut album.


The video for Radical is possibly one of my favourites so far this year, like a particularly colourful, gory and surreal port-Tarantino children's book . Someone should publish it as a paperback edition.

Musically the band serve up another portion of flavoursome electro indie, instantly appealing and hard to forget.



We Are Match are touring at the moment and play at the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris on March 31.